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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 14:28:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   I have recently acquired a Corebooted Lenovo ThinkPad T440p from minifree, and it is awesome except for two things:

   - Fn in the lower left and Ctrl next to it, instead of Ctrl in the lower left. Oh well.
   - No audio over HDMI. This is more than annoying and impedes our ability to enjoy movie night.

   I thought it was maybe because I had an Apple miniDP->HDMI cable, so I bought a generic one, but it still doesn't work.

   Audio settings recognize that there is an audio device on the HDMI port, but when I try to use it, mpv and vlc both just speed through the video with no audio output and mpv says "Audio underrun detected".

   I'm finding surprisingly little about this on the web so far. I would have expected a distinguished old model like this to Just Work and failing that having a very well documented workaround to make it work.

   I'm using Debian and KDE. Any ideas?

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 13:55:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      I talked to @Leah Rowe on the #minifree IRC and it turns out there isn't actually any HDMI audio through the miniDP++, according to the schematics there is no physical connection. So I can stop looking for a software solution.

      But there's a way out! I'll find a dock for it. That will have working audio, I presume through a native HDMI connector.

      Thank you Leah for the quick answer!

      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 14:48:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

         in reply to

         Looks like I won't have to buy the old chunky style dock. The USB-C docks with USB-A adapter supposedly work with this old thing too.

         thinkpads.com/forum/viewtopic.…

         1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 15:46:20 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

            in reply to
            Actually maybe I can get away with buying a random USB-A 3.0 HDMI dock for 70 USD rather than a Lenovo dock for 200 USD?